Gene Taylor Quotations

When I visit Iraq, ... I ride around in an armored vehicle, and I am sure the secretary (of defense) does, as well. That should be the single standard: If it is good enough for the big-shots, it is good enough for every American soldier.

What we do in government now affects the future of 18- to 30-year-olds, yet few vote and most people don't understand them, ... I like to encourage their participation in government, and I like to hear their take on issues.

She let it be known that she would prefer that I didn't (attend), ... I had to remind her that ... there was nobody (in Congress) closer to ground zero. For me not to participate would be the wrong thing to do.

Maybe the president made a very good move when he asked you to leave your job. ... You get an F-minus in my book.

I wish there was a better way to make the front page of USA Today than to have my house blown down, ... I was hoping it would be on passing health care for reservists or something.

I have a wait-and-see attitude. I'm not sure where he's at. I don't know if he's the top dog in the mix or what.

What you lost was a lot of local knowledge,

I think the company didn't have a plane available and they used (FEMA) as an excuse.

Our nation works best when we work together, and a September 11-type commission composed of whoever needs to be subpoenaed, is what we need to do.

Our kids will play anyone. They've scheduled some of the toughest competition in the country. When you don't have playoffs, a game like this gives our players something to look forward to as they close out their careers.

Some of the folks from Louisiana may have gotten greedy in some of their requests,

I was there ? and I didn't recall seeing you there,

You all turned this around; it was pretty chaotic before you got here.

We knew we had a chance to be competitive fairly quickly in football.

whose lives were in danger in the aftermath of that storm because of Mike Brown's incompetence.

Unfortunately, I don't see a circumstance when prices will come down,

Tom and I talked about it. But we already had a Division II school on our schedule. That (UND game) was behind the Minnesota option, quite frankly.

What really burns me is most of my stuff was made in America, ... Now I got to replace it with stuff made in China.

What part of the FEMA plan envisioned that the first responders in Hancock County and much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast would have to loot the local grocery store and loot the local Wal-Mart in order to feed themselves, would have to loot the local Wal-Mart in order to have a change of clothes?

We just said we're not quite ready to do that yet. They keep calling because their options are not very attractive.

What the briefing did not answer is how these enormous failings could have occurred. We will not know the answer to these questions unless we subpoena the documents and the e-mails that the White House is refusing to supply.

Andy was kind enough to fly back there with me, ... Andy was there trying to help me. . . . My dad was killed. . . . The investigation was going nowhere.

FEMA continues to be able to mess up a one-car funeral -- we don't begin to have enough money for major reconstruction,

It was a challenging move and not everyone was on board with it. But you look at all the interest throughout the country in this win over Wisconsin. You cannot put a price on that exposure for the athletic program and the university.

The ship's captain followed fleet instructions, ... There will be no disciplinary action.

The subdivision ordinance does not help these people to get affordable housing.

The money is attractive, but we have to look long term at the health of our program. We don't want to go out and get blown out, because then all of a sudden the '07 game is not as attractive.

A hurricane is anything but an ideal world, ... The aftermath of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack is going to be anything but an ideal world. The roads will not be passable. There will not be electricity. There will not be communications.

It's kind of weird that it takes something like this to have such an opportunity to speak to so many people who can make a difference,

It's a matter of if he decides to go or not.

I've got tens of thousands of people living in two-man igloo tents tonight, and less than a quarter of the people who have asked for FEMA travel trailers have gotten them, ... And at the same time they can find $140,000 a year to pay this incompetent son of a gun; that's ridiculous.

I've got 14,000 people begging for a place to stay, ... Who's in a position to solve that problem?

It was great that Minnesota was very patient with us until we could work through this.

Things have changed quite a bit since then.

The federal response, from highways to housing to trailers, is completely unacceptable.

I'm obviously pleased that Tim is staying. But if we would have taken the job, we certainly would have patted him on the back and wished him a lot of luck.

(Campbell) was really pulling his hair out. I appreciate his efforts.

But if I'm sitting here with five and five (home and away) and start panicking, then the landscape changes.

I don't know if I asked Andy to go to Dr. Keen or not, ... (Keen) is someone Andy knew and respected.

You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisianans, but I'm a witness as to what happened in Mississippi. You folks fell on your face.

The magnitude of it is mind-boggling. I'm guessing tens of thousands of homes are gone.

The disconnect was, people thought there was some federal expertise out there. There wasn't. Not from you.

The likelihood that tens of thousands of Mississippians will lose their homes is extremely high, ... I would welcome anyone's help to make these people whole.